PokerStars giving UK players $300 in SCOOP tickets daily

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

The PokerStars 2011 Spring Championship of Online Poker begins this Sunday and now you have even less of an excuse not to play in at least one of the 114 events with buy-ins ranging from $5.50 to $25,500. Every night at 7.30pm, PokerStars are giving away $300 in SCOOP entries exclusively for UK and Ireland players.

From today until May 8, when the first event of the SCOOP begins (a NL 6-max tournament with $22, $216 and $2,100 buy-ins), UK players will get a chance to qualify for the Main Event absolutely free – the low one, at least, which still carries a $109 buy-in and a prize pool of $750,000 guaranteed.

Overall, the SCOOP promises $25m in prize money across the 114 events with the Main Event taking place on May 22 with a $109, $1,050 and $10,300 buy-in event. The lowest entry fee on the SCOOP schedule is the $5.50 low NL rebuy event while the largest is a $25,000 heads-up high roller showdown.

Further promotions for SCOOP include the Daily Bigs, a guaranteed tournament of $11, $22 or $109 entry that one simply has to play in three of in order to earn a SCOOP ticket to the value of the tournament played. In addition, you can qualify to a SCOOP event from as little as 10FPPs or $0.25.

Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”